Prevalence of trachoma and diabetes-related eye disease among a cohort of adult Aboriginal patients screened over the period 1999-2004 in remote South Australia

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 329-334

  Durkin, Shane R ^a   Casson, Robert ^a,b   Newland, Henry S ^a,b   Selva, Dinesh ^a,b  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Diabetes; Prevalence; Retinopathy; Trachoma

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA OPACITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EYE DISEASE; EYELID DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RETINA MACULOPATHY; SCAR FORMATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRACHOMA; TRICHIASIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TRACHOMA;

EID: 33746573820     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2006.01215.x     Document Type: Article

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